Denver Health Lean Academy hosted Shingo Institute including Mark Baker, Executive Director and Shaun Barker, Director of Operations & Assessment for a Shingo Study Tour Site Visit on September 22, 2014. The guests had the opportunity to hear various presentations and speak with members of Denver Health Staff about their Lean Journey.

Healthcare Performance Partners and Denver Health and Hospital Authority announced a collaboration to enrich the Lean Academy course offerings, as well as to improve and supplement the organization’s overall Lean management systems.

"The Denver Health approach is one that public hospitals everywhere should emulate", said Mark McClellan, director of the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution and former administrator at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.